Today's Russia Is Not To Be Compared

At The Beginning Of The 60's Our Country Called The Foreign Workers To Come To Germany And Now They Live In Our Country. We Kidded Ourselves A While, We Said: 'they Won't Stay, Sometime They Will Be Gone.' But This Isn't Reality.

If I Run A Time-limited Test Program, I'll Never Discover Whether Markets With Additional Employment Truly Exist. A Solution In The Low-wage Sector Cannot Be A Limited Special Program.

There's A Rumour Going Around That States Cannot Go Bankrupt. This Rumour Is Not True.

History Has Often Showed Us The Strength Of The Forces That Are Unleashed By The Yearning For Freedom. It Moved People To Overcome Their Fears And Openly Confront Dictators Such As In East Germany And Eastern Europe About 22 Years Ago... The Yearning For Freedom Cannot Be Contained By Walls For Long. It Was This Yearning That Brought Down The Iron Curtain That Divided Germany And Europe, And Indeed The World, Into Two Blocs.

Nobody In Europe Will Be Abandoned. Nobody In Europe Will Be Excluded. Europe Only Succeeds If We Work Together.